Anyone who follows my blog or knows me professionally knows that I love working with the Data View Web Part (DVWP) in SharePoint. It’s the Swiss Army knife of Web Parts, it’s a dessert topping, it’s a floor wax. Yes, it even can help you graph your data. I’ve posted before about this technique for…
I added a new demo page to the Sympraxis Consulting site yesterday. It’s such a simple thing that it’s almost not worth mentioning. However, when you can do something today that means you don’t have to do work tomorrow, why not make the effort? I’ve posted on this idea before, but just to reiterate, the demo…
I usually test my formulas in Excel. The syntax is the same; if it works in Excel, it’s going to work in SharePoint. (There may be exceptions to this, but I haven’t run into them.) Simply set up some cells with the values you need and then work out your formula. Once you’ve got it…
I’ve been using the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar for years with Internet Explorer 7 and below. When Internet Explorer 8 came out, it had these tools baked right in and called the Developer Tools. (You can activate the Developer tools by hitting F12 in IE8.) But what if you need to peek into the DOM…
Yup. Decided to switch themes. Sort of like trying on a new summer wardrobe. I thought that this theme might be a little easier on the eyes and also give a bit more room for code. Let me know what you think! UPDATE 2009-07-26 — Turns out the new wardrobe just didn’t feel right, so I’m…
As long as I’ve been working with Data View Web Parts (DVWPs), I’ve pretty much always done my “joins” manually by diving into the XSL. When I started working with DVWPs, there wasn’t much available to tell me how to do things, so I just made it up based on what worked. Today I saw…
Over the last few days, I’ve been doing some more work with jQuery. It’s really a very cool abstraction on JavaScript, but it does take some getting used to. My latest challenge is to understand .animate. It’s pretty straightforward, but cross-browser issues can make it tricky. I’m having “special” trouble with opacity in Internet Explorer. …
While I think about my next pithy post on this topic, I thought I’d share some interesting perspectives from some of the folks I know in the blogosphere. Seems that a lot of us are thinking about this in a meta way these days. This is to be expected, as early adoption often resembles a…
I posted last September about Date Calculations in a DVWP. In that post, I pointed out Andy Lewis’ great post about how to do Filtering and Formatting with Date Values over at the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog. I’ve been answering quite a few questions about date arithmetic over at the MSDN forums lately, so…
Facebook, MySpace, WordPress, del.icio.us, Twitter, Live Spaces — Web Pages, Web Sites — HTML, Java, jQuery, Perl — SQL, Oracle, MySQL Oh, my. What on earth are you to do?!?!? These are just a few of the literally thousands (if not tens of thousands) of services, applications, technologies, databases, etc. that you could run into…